Vevgeny Salinder~11~ recently went for a walk and has made an amazing discovery~ a well-preserved body of a 30~000 year old woolly mammoth! Found...
During the last week of school~ I decided to try an experiment. Inspired by a documentary about John Hunter~ the fourth grade teacher who created the...
Off the coast of Queensland~ Australia is the world's largest coral reef in the world~ Scientists say the reef that extends for 1600 miles in the...
I've develop lots of resources and activities to use with students for the Presidential Election for grades 4-9.Check them out at this link:http://...
Oyez~ Oyez...Do you know what happens every year on the first Monday of October? The Supreme Court~ the highest court in our country~ opens for a new...
Sometimes~ it feels like a no-win situation.You position the students desks facing each other~ in cooperative learning style~ and their eyes are on...
Your traditional paperback and hardcover books aren't going anywhere anytime soon, but you might be seeing a lot less of them in the hands of average...
Want to dip your toe into the "flipped classroom" water without a big investment or learning curve? A free online tool that records actions on one'...
I am back with yet another Common Core teacher resource book. I have spent the past few days reading through the first grade section of Common Core...
The Common Core Lesson Book K-5 by Gretchen Owocki arrived on my doorstep late yesterday evening. Luckily for me, we had early release today at...
Not sure how I did it, but one school year, I convinced my principal to let me fill up over 500 water balloons, bring the kiddies out to the P.E....
It seems that some of the amazing things used by fictitious famous wizard, Harry Potter, are becoming a reality. Last year, an invisibility cloak...
Good manners are import all year~ but teachers can't spend every month teaching them. That's why National Children's Good Manners month (September)...
Leadership matters. Principals set the tone of a school and can inspire students and teachers alike to reach new heights. They are second only to...
Youve heard of glow-in-the-dark clothes~ toys~ maybe jewelry.How about glow-in-the-dark math?Thats right. Word problems that shine in fluorescent...
Leave it to the Wizards of Cupertino to upstage everyone in the tech industry with a new iPhone model that blows away anything on market or on the...
Implementation has begun! While I am excited to see what changes the CCSS will bring to both my teaching and my students' performance, I am...
Using the news for creative writing.A monarch butterfly migrating from North America to Mexico made an unexpected detour-to Great Britain. It is...
Chicago public school teachers have launched the first teacher strike in the city in 25 years. A CNN story (http://tinyurl.com/caql6th) reported that...
With the upcoming election~ I have developed a number of resources which you may find of value to use with your students. Add to the webquest on...